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Why not just buy any of the other tables that already run Linux instead? Its not like Microsoft is breaking new ground here. I personally can't stand Android but I utterly fail to see why its such a big deal to go get a Microsoft device and stick another OS on it and deal with getting everything to work when you can do the far simpler thing and buy a cheaper version with the OS you already want on it.

If you don't want a windows tablet don't buy one. You have FAR more Linux tablets than Surface tablets an

Do you go buy a gasoline car and spend your time trying to convert it to diesel and bitch that fuel system cant take it or that it doesnt' have glow plugs?

More like only being able to use fuel from a single Microsoft gas station. Not that the fuel is anything special, but their pump is the only one that knows the magic hand shake to open your car's tank. This is all to protect your car's engine from bad quality fuel, of course.

So buy a car that takes flex fuel and not one that tells you up front that you have to buy gas from Microsoft. You have the option to get what you want, instead you get something you don't want and then bitch that it doesnt' work the way you want. It makes it clear just out to be obnoxious when you do this shit. Not you specifically of course, but anyone who even thinks this is wrong.

You have a choice, Microsoft is the new, small fry in the market. You have thousands of other options that meet your requ